[Ham-Computers] Copy OS?

[Dan Violette]

Of course you can with cloning software on Windows.  Note that you CANNOT
just copy files.  Like said though, you will be much happier in the long run
installing fresh operating system on new drive and reinstalling used
software.  I moved in an SSD for C: and moved the Windows 7 to D:.  Put
Windows 8 on the SSD and all data was ready to use for all my software since
on the D: drive (which I made the default data drive).  Can even boot from
the D: drive and get Win 7 as before (do it rarely and many updates usually
ready).

Dan KI6X

-----Original Message-----
From: Ham-Computers [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf
Of Ron Youvan
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 5:49 AM
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Copy OS?

On 07/25/2015 01:36 AM, Kurt KD7JYK DM09 wrote:

> I have a 4 GB primary hard drive.  About 1/3 is OS, the other 1/3 e-mail.
> Misc files take up all but 400 MB.

> Can I copy the entire drive to my archival drive which has many tens 
> of GB of space, put in a larger C: drive, then copy eveything, OS and 
> all, back to the new large C: drive and expect it to run?

   If you are using LINUX or Unix yes you can, I have done it, if not, no.

-- 
   Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
                 Every action results in unwanted side effects.
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